Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos

Carolina Michaëlis was born in Berlin on 15 March 1851; universities being closed to women, she educated herself at home and, from the age of sixteen, was publishing work on Italian and Spanish letters. Married in Berlin in 1876 to the art historian Joaquim de Vasconcelos, she settled in Porto. Her scholarly edition of a medieval songbook held in the Ajuda palace, in 1904, earned her an appointment in 1911 to the faculty of letters at Lisbon, then at Coimbra: she was the first woman professor at a Portuguese university. She defended the education of women and died in Porto in 1925.

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• EssayA Saudade PortuguesaCarolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos · 1914not translated into EnglishLiterature